Data as of January 1, 2010
Refusal clauses may apply to one or a combination of the following: individual health care providers, pharmacists, health care facilities, and/or insurers, which may potentially include employers.

Refusing to Provide Health Services, State Policies in Brief, as of January 1, 2010, Guttmacher Institute. Available at http://www.guttmacher.org/statecenter/spibs/spib_RPHS.pdf.

NA: Not applicable.

1. Exemption limited to private entities.
2. An expansion of the state's abortion refusal clause is temporarily enjoined pending the outcome of litigation; the prior law is in effect.
3. Temporarily enjoined; law not in effect pending the outcome of litigation.
4. A broadly worded refusal clause may apply to pharmacies.
5. Exemption limited to religious entities.
6. State law requires pharmacies to fill valid contraceptive prescriptions.
7. Pharmacies have a duty to fill valid prescriptions.
8. The policy in Washington that requires pharmacies dispense valid prescriptions and deliver FDA-approved drugs, such as Plan B, is not in effect pending the outcome of a court case.